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Quote the limitation on the number of cars per committee member due to the Chinese delegation.

The best part of that is it was like Section 3, Subsection 4, Heading B, Paragraph 46 was about parking spaces, and Section 3, Subsection 4, Heading B, Paragraph 47 was about treatment of POWs during wartime.

It's the sort of thing that makes me think Wikipedia jumped the shark on its relevance, just like StackOverflow did back when every fucking question about JavaScript invokes jQuery even when it really doesn't need to.

No, my problem isn't that it's recorded somewhere. I think it's great that it's recorded - but I don't think Wikipedia is necessarily the venue for it.

They have notability guidelines that exclude useful and meaningful things but they completely allow things like an article for every episode of popular TV series, as well as articles about the TV series for meta references.

To my mind, that's not the sort of thing that Wikipedia was intended to be about, but concede that there isn't really a better venue short of hiving stuff off to dedicated subwikis.

For example take the comment about the Rules of Acquisition. I don't believe that's the sort of thing that 'should' be on Wikipedia, but a better home would be something like Memory Alpha, something dedicated to the universe, leaving Wikipedia free for more factual information about the series, rather than in-universe considerations.

They have notability guidelines that exclude useful and meaningful things but they completely allow things like an article for every episode of popular TV series, as well as articles about the TV series for meta references.

Ah shit. I was about to bring out my favorite example: the "Hawk" spaceship from Space: 1999 had an entire page despite:

being a quick and dirty repainting of their existing Eagle spaceship model,

appearing in exactly one episode

Alas, the Hawk (Space: 1999) page is no more.

EDIT: note that I don't care if the Hawk gets a page. I'm all for it. I just like pointing out the hypocrisy of deleting a webcomic with 50,000 viewers just because no newspaper has written about it, but keeping a ... well something like the Hawk.

It's the sort of thing that makes me think Wikipedia jumped the shark on its relevance, just like StackOverflow did back when every fucking question about JavaScript invokes jQuery even when it really doesn't need to.

Besides, weren't we doing the moral equivalent of that here years earlier?